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showtime said the biggest spike in subscribers happened the same day as part 1. imho, the only way showtime can get a true guage on twin peaks effect is to cancel it the day after the finale since it's a network that's driven by subscriber-ship and not necessarily ratings.

djsunyc wrote:showtime said the biggest spike in subscribers happened the same day as part 1. imho, the only way showtime can get a true guage on twin peaks effect is to cancel it the day after the finale since it's a network that's driven by subscriber-ship and not necessarily ratings.

I subscribed to Showtime for one show and that show is Twin Peaks. I plan on cancelling mine once it's over.

pinballmars wrote:Going by those quotes from the Showtime exec in the articles floating around, I get the impression that it's largely up to Lynch and Frost whether or not anything further happens with Twin Peaks.

In any case, do what y'all want, but I'm going to keep Showtime for awhile. So I can watch "The Return" again. And again. And again. Until a Blu-ray set comes out.

yeah, exactly. I think this is entirely up to Lynch/Frost and if they want to continue.

It's obviously up to Lynch & Frost but they'll do it only if the fans have lust for more. I'm reserving judgement until we see the finale but I do think there are more stories to be told in the world of Twin Peaks...

This is a really misguided idea. Showtime is interested in creating subscribers - loyal customers interested in the kind of content they produce. If "Twin Peaks" can help create that kind of subscribers then Showtime will want to keep the show around. If they see that the show only brings in people that bail as soon as a season ends, then it is simply not a working business model for them. Stick with Showtime for a bit and we just might get what we want.

eyeboogers wrote:This is a really misguided idea. Showtime is interested in creating subscribers - loyal customers interested in the kind of content they produce. If "Twin Peaks" can help create that kind of subscribers then Showtime will want to keep the show around. If they see that the show only brings in people that bail as soon as a season ends, then it is simply not a working business model for them. Stick with Showtime for a bit and we just might get what we want.

I'm also inclined not to cancel. I think Showtime should be rewarded for taking such an unprecedented risk.

Might writing to Showtime en masse to thank them for TPTR and to encourage them to greenlight similar, risky, artist-driven series be a better idea? I'm not talking about any kind of aggressive or demanding campaign a la COOP (they aren't cancelling the show, after all--by all reports, the door is open to L/F if they want to do more), but more just a vocal outpouring of support, to let them know, unequivocally, that there is demand for this kind of programming.

Personally, I'd not only love to see more from Lynch (more TP or whatever else he'd like to do), but I'd really love to see other artists get this kind of deal--total artistic control, no network interference, series written and directed like a giant movie by a single auteur. To me, it's the fulfillment of what the medium can be--i.e. absolutely anything! I'd just love to see TPTR set a precedent and if there's anything we, as viewers, can do to encourage that, I say we should do it.

Interesting that it's Fenn at the centre of that story. If anyone's story was definitively ended by the Return, I would have thought it was Audrey's.

If there is a season 4 and the Audrey story gets picked up and follows on from where we left it, I will be extremely disappointed. It is as perfect and aesthetically pleasing an ending as anyone could want right where it is.

As a matter of fact, 'Chalfont' was the name of the people that rented this space before. Two Chalfonts. Weird, huh?